I guess I'm just slow on the uptake but watching this, I think I'm only now really appreciating how terrible the ground is for what the Russians have brought to bare, in the worst time possible. I keep thinking of them getting attacked and running out of fuel, moving slowly through the mud...but really it's just the ground has flat out eaten so much of their armor, and they have no choice but to turn back.
wow. Just, all of that wiped out because of a 2 week delay! --and of course the clear lack of preparing for such contingencies, like uh, having a force that can actually roll through those single-lane conditions, or something. I dunno.
But damn, your invasion stopped by mud, wiping out your uh, military budget.
that has to sting